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Prometheus stood more or less upright (proved by the fact that his spinal cord entered the skull from below). His teeth were more human thai, apelike, and there is evidence that, like Samson, he used animal jawbones as clubs. Dr. Dart also reported on a stone-working creature that lived in the Transvaal 500,000 to 750,000 years ago. His primitive "pebble tools" have been found in gravel pits, but no bones have been found...
...Howard's manager, feted at a city banquet last year as scion of gracious living and upright tradition, is today as purveyor of filth. This formerly honest family man is new a corrupter of youth, the incarnate devil who not only takes the hindmost, but swathes it in a G-string to waggle before adolescent eyes...
Bridge & a Bull Session. Ike's evenings were spent with Mamie and Mrs. Doud. Sometimes there was bridge with old friends, and occasionally Mamie sang, accompanying herself on an old upright piano. More often the family just sat around the living room and chatted until 9:30 or 10, when Ike was ready to go to bed. Once last week Ike stretched his evening out, sat up late for a bull session with Presidential Aide Robert Cutler and Special Counsel Bernard Shanley, who were in town briefly from Washington. About midnight, shortly before Cutler's plane left...
Before the characters stop singing and living the Reconstruction Blues, upright Trav Currain 's family is caught up in a veritable carnival of killing. The Un conquered is standard Williams, with the familiar faults, the familiar virtues, and a not too novel moral: that the post-bellum South poisoned its wells too deeply to drink anything but violence for generations...
...Jury Did Not Believe. With Dagmar's corpse on his hands. Fabian looked around the roadside for signs of a struggle. Finding none, he reasoned that the body had been dumped from a car. The Yard's pathologist bore him out. "She had been seated upright . . . after she died," he said. "Seated in a motor car?" asked Fabian. "Something less upholstered," the doctor suggested. Out went Fabian's order: check all trucks that used the road between...